Jim Wilson
Author
Formats
Summary
Evangelism is war. Fight to win.
In war, there are certain principles which, if followed, always tend toward success and, if neglected or ignored, will tend toward defeat or even destruction. These are called the principles of war.
Not all warfare is waged on a battlefield. In Principles of War, longtime evangelist and preacher Jim Wilson outlines the principles of war and explains how we can employ them in our daily spiritual battles as we fight...
Author
Summary
To create a dynamic and multi-pane user interface on Android, you need to encapsulate UI components and activity behaviors into modules that you can swap into and out of your activities. You can create these modules with the fragment class, which behaves somewhat like a nested activity that can define its own layout and manage its own lifecycle. When a fragment specifies its own layout, it can be configured in different combinations with other fragments...
Author
Summary
Have you prayed the sinner's prayer or gone forward to "receive" Jesus, but aren't sure if you are really saved? How can you know if what you did was real? In this short booklet, Jim Wilson uses Scripture to tell you just that. Assurances of Salvation contains clear teaching from the Bible about what constitutes salvation and how to know that you really have it.
Author
Summary
Men were designed, created, and commanded to bear responsibility, but our history of failure in this area stretches all the way back to Adam. Today irresponsibility is considered normal, even a birthright. Jim Wilson outlines the causes and results of this failure, the biblical principles and characteristics that define a responsible man, and how men can apply them both in their own lives and in raising their sons. Masculinity does not have to be...
Author
Summary
At the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Britain was America’s first-line defense, a vulnerable, but unsinkable aircraft carrier on which the United States based the Strategic Air Commands first-strike elements of their Americas nuclear deterrent. The Strategic Air Commands UK bases and the RAFs V-Force were ordered to the highest state of readiness at any time during the Cold War. Nuclear weapons were loaded, some nuclear-armed aircraft went on...
Author
Summary
"Rejoice in the Lord always: again I will say, rejoice." (Philippians 4:4) "Restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing spirit to sustain me." (Psalm 51:12) Have you ever felt like you are just wasting away, like your strength is sapped? The normal Christian life is a life of joy. Yet many (if not most) Christians are not consistently joyful. What is it that keeps us from obeying the command to rejoice always? Often, it is unconfessed...
Author
Summary
When Good Enough Isn't Good Enough Naval Academy midshipman Jim Wilson didn't cuss or smoke or chew or go with girls who do. When a friend asked him if he was going to heaven, Jim replied, "If someone like me can't make it, heaven is going to be thinly populated." It was a serious answer, but his friend laughed. Jim was in for a surprise: Turns out you have to be bad to go to heaven.
Author
Summary
Bulletproof Flowers for the South illustrates how to plant, grow, and care for a large variety of hardy Southern flowers. Including an A-Z encyclopedia of Southern favorites and twenty comprehensive lists of favorite flowers from expert nurseries around the South, this beautifully illustrated book presents superior long-blooming, heat-resistant flowers.
Author
Summary
Cancer, Be Not Proud is a narrative of a man's fight for his life after receiving the shattering diagnosis of glioblastoma, an often-fatal brain cancer. With literary flair and humor, Jim Wilson takes his readers on a roller-coaster ride of myriad treatments and emotions, buoyed by his unwavering willpower and stubborn sense of wonder. Jim adheres to a number of "good habits" which he believes has increased the likelihood of survival. He describes...
Author
Summary
"The unity of the Body is one of the most forceful apologetics for the divinity of Christ. Conversely, disunity is Satan's most successful tool."—Otto Helweg
God's glory in us is the basic provision for Christian unity. "I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one: I in them and you in me. May they be brought to complete unity to let the world know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me"...
Author
Summary
For most British people the weekend of 27/28 October 1962 could so very easily have been their last weekend on earth, yet astonishingly the fact that Britain's nuclear deterrent forces went to an unprecedented level of readiness was kept secret from the public. Thor nuclear-tipped ballistic missiles stood on a round-the-clock wartime state of alert ready to be fired, these were the 'other' missiles of the Cuban Missile Crisis, which made Britain,...
Author
Summary
The thoughts you have when you're depressed come from the devil. And the good news for you is that the devil is a liar. Do you feel weighed down all the time? Perhaps, although you are a Christian and know you're going to heaven, your spiritual life seems mediocre at best. You know the Bible says to rejoice always, and you'd like to be living joyfully, but you just don't know how. In this sequel to How to Be Free from Bitterness, Jim Wilson...
Author
Summary
Everyone needs advice, and everyone gives advice. In a world of dysfunctional families, churches, and societies, professional counseling is in great demand as a solution to our problems. The weak link in this solution is the inability to determine a counselor's qualifications apart from his professional accreditation. Academics can give you knowledge, but no learning or books can give you wisdom. There are no graduate degrees in love or compassion....
14) Saturation Love
Author
Summary
How Much Love Is Enough? We love our kids, but do we love like God loves…without conditions, reservations, or reluctance? In this excerpt from his popular book How to Be Free from Bitterness, Jim Wilson identifies the troublesome consequences of insufficient parental love and points readers to the glorious fruit of superabundant kindness, tolerance, and patience. With decades of pastoral wisdom, Wilson helps parents apply the eternal truths of Scripture...
Author
Summary
Create engaging apps with fragments to provide a rich user interface that dynamically adapts to the individual characteristics of your customers' tablets and smartphones
This book is for developers with a basic understanding of Android programming who would like to improve the appearance and usability of their applications by creating a more interactive user experience and dynamically adaptive UIs; providing better support for tablets and smartphones...
Author
Summary
REPENT: A GOOD, KIND WORD
The enemy of our souls has made a caricature of the word repent so that those who preach it are ridiculed by saints and sinners alike. His caricature says that repent is a harsh, unkind, ultimatum. Christians and Christian preachers have believed this caricature and refused to use the word. But the Bible says that it is the kindness of God that leads us to repentance (Rom. 2:4) and that "God is not willing for any to perish...
Author
Summary
Feedback and evaluation, both of oneself and by others, are the lifeblood of a successful ministry experience. In A Guide to Theological Reflection, experienced practical ministry professors Jim Wilson and Earl Waggoner introduce the processes and tools of theological reflection for ministry.
Effective evaluation includes critique and potential course correction for the honest and willing minister, as well as positive affirmation of how one's desires...
Author
Summary
An important tool of a birdwatcher is a good identification guide. Most cover the birds of Europe and few deal exclusively with Ireland. This first photographic identification guide to the birds of Ireland has over 1,600 photos of more than 260 species, in an easy, quick-reference format. With eight to fifteen images per species, the key identification features of each bird are shown, with concise descriptions and pointers to indicate important features....
Author
Summary
Disobedience. It's normal, right? For hundreds of years, the Church has struggled with how to overcome sin in the Christian life. We know that the cross takes care of our past sins at salvation and assures us life after death. But what do we do with the time in between? Many Christians go through life sinning and confessing, sinning and confessing, but they never get beyond that. Is that better than sinning and not confessing? Absolutely: but it is...
Author
Summary
Can you be a career naval officer and a Christian? In The USNA 12, graduates of the U.S. Naval Academy tell stories of their time at the Academy and how the experiences they had there transformed their lives. We trust that these stories will be a blessing to you and that this will be an example for similar books from each of the service academies in future years. "To them God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles the glorious riches of this...